Blog X feed is ending
I was going to do this in the new year, but it can’t wait: this blog will no longer direct a feed to X. I’ve just deleted my account on ifttt which linked the feed to X.
The content on X will remain there for a little while, as I decide what to do with it, but will no longer be updated.
Posts will continue going to Bluesky, and there’s an RSS feed of the posts as well as the comments for people who prefer to roll their own. Links to those feeds are also permanently available down the sidebar in the website version of the blog, which remains its primary home as always.
Ian 21:15 on 2024-12-27 Permalink
Good for you. Xitter is a cesspool. At my place of work we are also abandoning them, and will probably switch to Bluesky. Are you still on Meta?
Kate 00:19 on 2024-12-28 Permalink
The blog was never on Facebook for long, and hasn’t been for years. It’s never been on any other Meta property.
Tux 15:50 on 2024-12-28 Permalink
Kate, I urge you to join the Fediverse. kolektiva.social is a decent server that’s got some Montreal area folks on it – there are many other servers to choose from too.
Kate 16:40 on 2024-12-28 Permalink
Tux, I created a Mastodon account for the blog in February 2023.
Every time I posted a link to a new blog post, the blog was inundated by so many bots that it went 503 and couldn’t be reached, sometimes for an hour or more.
I don’t know why this happened, but it was bad for the blog so I stopped it.
I do have the Enviromontreal account on both Bluesky and Mastodon, although I can’t promise to post every day. But I put any relevant local environment news on both feeds. That’s different – they don’t call back to a WordPress blog but are simply ongoing posts of media links with little or no commentary.
MarcG 18:45 on 2024-12-28 Permalink
Anyone interested in the Mastodon issue can follow this Github issue https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20188
Nathaniel 19:37 on 2024-12-28 Permalink
Good for you!
Ian 12:42 on 2024-12-29 Permalink
@Marcg that looks precisely right, good to know.